CESI is associate partner in the DAPHNE III project entitled "Gender Equality Awareness Raising against Intimate Partner Violence" ("GEAR against IPV").

The GEAR against IPV project started in December 2009 and will run for 2 years. The project is coordinated by the European Anti-Violence Network (Greece) and partner organizations are: SPI Forschung gGmbH - Germany, Austrian Women Shelter Network, AÖF/ Information Centre Against Violence - Austria and Hellenic Association of Health Education Promoting Teachers – Greece.

The project's 1^st Managerial Meeting was held in Athens from the 29^th to 30^th of January 2010. The meeting is being organized by EAVN and a total of 12 representatives of organizations that are participating in the project are attending the meeting in order to organize and mutually decide upon important steps of the project. Sanja Cesar and Vedrana Kobaš, representatives of CESI, also participated at meeting.

The Gender Equality Awareness Raising against IPV project intends to contribute to primary prevention of Intimate Partner Violence through a school-based intervention aiming to raise awareness and deconstruct gender stereotypes held by both high school students and teachers. Students of both genders will be called upon, through suitable and age-appropriate awareness raising material that will be developed, to assess and challenge their culturally "inherited" stereotypes and to approach the differences between the sexes as individual differences rather than as characteristics of superiority of one gender over the other.

As teachers, like the rest of society, have their own perceptions of gender roles, they will also be trained on issues of gender stereotyping, their links to IPV and IPV issues and provided with appropriate skills to enable them to operate as multipliers via raising students' awareness.